sooo... now what?

[00:00:00]Ah, good morning. It is officially day one without Recck Room. No, bro. I can't believe it. I'll be so honest. It still hasn't like kicked in for me yet. I've literally been awake for like 24 hours.

[00:00:12]Right after my stream yesterday, I just fell asleep insane. I think I slept for like 13 hours. I don't even know, bro.

[00:00:18]According to my watch, it's 8:00 a.m.

[00:00:20]right now, and I have a flight to catch in like 8 hours. And apparently, people say you have to be at the airport like 2 hours ahead of time. So, I've got 6 hours.

[00:00:29]I've not packed anything. I still got a bunch of work to get done. I look like an absolute chut and I'm flying to China in like eight hours, bro. What the hell?

[00:00:37]Lock in, bro.

[00:00:40]All right, let's get this thing started.

[00:00:42]Yo, chill. Why is this empty, bro? What?

[00:00:45]Yo, what the So, as you guys probably know, Recck Room just shut down. I just finished like my 24-hour live stream.

[00:00:50]Thank you to everyone who pulled up.

[00:00:51]That was genuinely such a fun stream.

[00:00:53]It's really sad, but at least I had a good time, you know. And I think a lot of you guys are wondering, what am I going to do now?

[00:00:59]Am I jobless? Am I going to work at McDonald's or something? And I wouldn't make a better video explaining like what's going to happen to this channel, but I'm in a rush, so I'm going to just do a vlog.

[00:01:15]>> Okay, guys. We're in the office. This is the area I was streaming in. But what is this mess, bro? That was my barf bag there in case I bomb it. Bro, record has genuinely been part of my life since I was 14 years old. And I'm 20 right now.

[00:01:27]That's 6 years of my life, over 30% of my life. And all of that today has come to an end. I've literally built my entire career off of this game. Like, you see those boxes? You see those like silver play buttons there? Those came originally from Rec Room.

[00:01:40]>> Yes, this is the guy behind the Recck Room memes videos.

[00:01:43]>> Like, if it weren't for Recck Room, I wouldn't have had this inspiration to like start making content, putting myself out there, and becoming a content creator. I literally remember the old days in high school where kids would make fun of me for like making weird ass videos online. Like I remember there's this one specific group of kids. They would like play my videos really loud like in the middle of chemistry class or something to like make fun of me. Like one of my videos where I'm screaming and stuff and I hated that. I thought it was so annoying. They would call me slat.

[00:02:08]Like if I was giving a presentation to people or something, they would just like call me slat and everyone would start laughing.

[00:02:13]>> But one of the reasons why I continued persisting through all that was cuz genuinely I felt so happy making content. And Reck Room was the biggest reason for that. And like I said, it's all coming to an end unfortunately.

[00:02:22]Check this out. This is my original Rec Room watch that they sent me. It's completely broken. Here are all of my Recck Room gift cards. I did end up giving some of them away. Uh yeah, there's so many here. Oh my gosh. Here's some of my other merch. Rec sent me these boxes a few years ago. Here's a Reckim water bottle. Here's the Kevin the Goblin plushy. Here's a maker pen that a fan sent me. Here's all the fan art that you guys gave me over. There's actually more. I I couldn't include all of it in here. And like I said, here are the three silver play buttons I've got over the years. Hopefully, we can get even more or even a gold one someday, maybe. Here's my Apple Vision Pro. It's just sitting there, bro. Like, here's my clothes. I don't know why it's there, bro. This is the VR I used to play Rec Room, and it's just sitting, bro. I This place is a freaking mess, bro. Again, I'm truly so appreciative for all the amazing years I've had with Recck Room.

[00:03:05]I've said it before, but if I had to pick a time for Rec Room to shut down, this would actually be pretty good timing because I think I'm ready to move on. I mean, I've been doing it for 6 years, and I think I'm really happy with the way that I've been able to leave things off. Okay, on this channel alone, I've made 671 videos and right now we're at almost half a million subscribers.

[00:03:24]So, obviously there's no more rec room videos happening on this channel, but I know the big question y'all are wondering is like, what am I going to do next? Or like, what's next to come in my life? Yeah, what a lot of you guys still don't know about me is that I run other channels as well. Like, I have this one here called Slatt 2. It's my animal company/gorilla Tag channel. I was actually invited this year by Gorilla Tag to go to VidCon as a speaker. So, if you're going to VidCon first off, you can see me speak live with Chubby Snell and my friend Googly. Make sure to follow up to my panel at VidCon if you're going. But yeah, for the short term, I probably will go back to one of my channels, probably Slat 2, do some more Animal Company stuff. But then, I'm sure you're also wondering, what am I going to do with this channel? Am I going to go to Radium or Vanilla or like one of the other copycat games? Am I going to go to VR Chat? Am I going to rebrand this channel to like Gorilla Tag stuff? Well, if you want to hear the answer to that, uh, I'll tell you later cuz I lowkey am running low on time and I need to get some work done. So, I'll tell you guys later. Okay. This is also so embarrassing, but I'm going to Thailand right after and I haven't even booked my hotels for it yet. Holy cell, bro. Literally every minute of my day for the past like 15 days has just been wreck room. Eat, sleep, recreck room, repeat, bro. Like, this is such a sad life. Here's a cool screenshot from yesterday's stream. As you guys can see, we got 14,000 live viewers. And that stream became trending on gaming, bro.

[00:04:34]Oh my god. All right, I'm going to go get some work done. Oh, holy cell.

[00:04:54]finally we can go offline. We are on vacation mode now. Let's get the hell out of here. Thank you, Recck Room, for everything. This is where your chapter ends. I need a much needed vacation.

[00:05:05]>> Hello, bro. Phoebe, what are you doing?

[00:05:08]Are you going to miss me?

[00:05:12]She does not care. All right, so I just finished up my work, eating my steak and broccoli. Now I just got to finish packing up my things, finished my meal, and then we're off to China.

[00:05:27]All right, we made it to the airport.

[00:05:29]Got the loot, the gray loot. I got to figure out where to go now. I'm lowkey running late. Oh, actually, fun fact, I forgot to tell you guys. I'm actually meeting a special guest at this airport.

[00:05:39]coincidentally very famous YouTuber that I actually know pretty well. Complete coincidence. We're going to go see them in a bit.

[00:05:49]>> All right, >> so guys, the special guest has arrived.

[00:05:52]>> What up, Slat Nation?

[00:05:53]>> This dude messaged me out of nowhere. So like, yo, are you still in Toronto?

[00:05:56]Wait, why did you message me? Did you know? I was going to say I had a delay and I was like, "Oh, maybe like I can meet up with Slack cuz like I haven't seen him." I was like, "Hey, want to like get lunch?" And then he's like, "Oh, I have a flight at 6:00." And that was the same time as my flight. Oh [ __ ] Actually, this guy booked a flight specifically cuz uh he knew I was going to the airport, so he made an excuse to >> like lowkey like fan mentality.

[00:06:17]>> I know, bro. Yeah, this guy wants me so bad, bro.

[00:06:20]>> The sixth day before Reck shut down, Mr. B pulled up for part of the stream, we guys, we played some Island Warfare back in the day, bro, we grinded that for probably close to like 50 hours. We just grinding Island Warfare >> competing against like the the ops, bro.

[00:06:34]>> Yeah. Come back.

[00:06:35]>> I know, bro. What other games did we used to play?

[00:06:38]>> We used to play um >> Island Wolf is all I remember, bro.

[00:06:40]>> Oh, A Plates of Doom or No, >> my god. Yeah, Plates of Doom, bro. The Plate of Doom.

[00:06:44]>> This guy's actually like crazy. Plates of Doom. Like I was like sitting behind my screen. I was like, "This guy was winning every single game."

[00:06:50]>> Like, I take that too seriously, bro.

[00:06:52]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:06:53]>> What are you going to miss most about Recck Room? But this is like an interview. So, what are you going to miss most about Recck Room?

[00:06:57]>> This guy right here, bro. This him.

[00:06:59]>> Oh, I appreciate it, man. Well, you can see me in person, but we don't live that far.

[00:07:02]>> We can play like Rec IRL.

[00:07:03]>> IRL paintball.

[00:07:05]>> Laser tag.

[00:07:07]Hey, 10 years. Usually, if you think about it, in college, which is what Reckon is based off of, it's like only a couple years.

[00:07:12]>> You guys got 10 years.

[00:07:13]>> I think most of my audience is probably like 13, >> bro. You were literally 3 years old when started, like you locked in, right? You missed Prime Fortnite. Miss probably Prime Roblox. I missed a lot of stuff.

[00:07:23]Like, like, what were you up to?

[00:07:25]>> Any last words you want to say to uh the last remaining Rec Room community on YouTube?

[00:07:29]>> Rec Room. I know you're suffering a lot, guys, right now. Rec Room gone, but you guys are going to find a different game.

[00:07:34]You're going to love it, bro. Make sure to stick with Slack though. He's really >> Facts. Facts. Facts.

[00:07:38]>> Say goodbye to Mr. B.

[00:07:39]>> I love you, man. Take it easy, bro.

[00:07:41]>> Oh my god.

[00:07:43]>> All right, let's go on the flight.

[00:07:59]Two more hours.

[00:08:13]Yo, this is it. We are in China. I literally time traveled an entire day. I left in like the evening of June 2nd, and now it is the evening of June 3rd, and it was only at like a 12-hour flight. So, I literally time travelveled. Bro, if these things didn't have English translations, I'd genuinely be cooked, bro. Like, I can't read any of this, bro. I am Chinese, but like I can't read it, so I'm I'm like a I'm an impostor, bro.

[00:08:36]>> Yo, that's lowkey tough. This is a nice airport.

[00:08:54]>> He's cutting the duck.

[00:08:57]Oh, it smells so fire. Oh, was that the duck head?

[00:09:01]This is uh Beijing's national dish.

[00:09:05]>> Me when someone asks me what what I did with Donald Duck. So guys, the joke is he's cutting duck right now.

[00:09:17]Yo, what is that store?

[00:09:21]So, I found this huge dog. Uh so, Slatt, I wonder what you look at uh when Recck Room shuts down. So, I'm here. I'm with the dog here. All right. Don't put that in the video. That's so bad. Guys, I just got a Hello Kitty iced coffee. Uh, if you guys want to see a video where I actually got sponsored by Hello Kitty, check the video on screen right now.

[00:09:38]It's a video where me and Salad, if you want to see more of her, we played this Hello Kitty game. It was a while ago, but pretty solid video. Check it out.

[00:09:44]So, Pizza Hut might be like the worst pizza in America, but in China, it's so goated, bro. They have like all sorts of pizza. It's like fine dining. It's not like fast food. We're going to go check it out right now. I'm here at Pizza Hut.

[00:09:54]I can't believe this is what a Chinese Pizza Hut looks like. It's not like the kind of I don't even think Pizza Hut in America you can like sit down and eat.

[00:10:01]Like they literally have pillows and stuff, bro. I have this little Hello Kitty watch tattoo and I think it's really cute. So, I'm going to stick it on my wrist.

[00:10:12]All right, here we go.

[00:10:14]Yo, that's tough.

[00:10:20]Yo, is this tough?

[00:10:24]Only in China will he see a cat resting on top of a a sausage stand with a dude jump roping. Bro, too. This is bagged yogurt. I've never had something like this before. It's like you just you bite the tip off pause and then you suck on it. Pause.

[00:10:43]It's pretty fire.

[00:10:46]>> All right, we've got one of these crocodile toys. We're gonna play. Loser has to pay for the meal even though you already paid. Did you? Okay. Loser has to pay.

[00:11:08]That scared me.

[00:11:36]We are here. We made it the tiing tien square. Uh it's lowkey tough. a lot of people and uh yeah man it's pretty beautiful you know just 24 hours ago rec shut down and I crashed out so hard I had to take a vacation to this beautiful place in China enjoying it a lot >> actually cool like I see this all like I see this all the time online and like photos and videos and stuff but it's pretty cool to be here we are in the center of China man that's aura if that's not aura I don't know What is >> Oh, dude. It's red.

[00:12:24]Oh, dude. What? I got that on video.

[00:12:26]Wait, that's tough.

[00:12:30]Hey, that's nice. That's pretty cool, if you ask me.

[00:12:34]I'm glad I'm here. Uh this is a great mental health break from uh literally streaming like 24 hours uh for Reckum shutdown, guys. Uh I'm going to miss Rec Room, but I'm not going to lie, this is pretty nice. I'm glad to be out of my house. I guess to help answer the question like what am I actually going to do after Reck shuts down? I'm not just going to like waste money and uh travel and like waste everything, but uh I want to start making more cool content like this, like IRL stuff. I don't know.

[00:13:02]It won't be all like this. So, I'll still figure out what I want to do, but I guess the ultimate goal of what I want to do is just integrate my real life self into a lot more of my videos. You guys all know me as Slat, like this goofy character online, and I really am like that, but I'm also, you know, I love traveling. I love showing off like my life, and I love sharing my experiences with people around the world. So, I hope you guys are interested for that kind of content.

[00:13:22]That's kind of a quick summary of what I'll be going into uh moving forward now that Reck's shutting down. You know, you know, instead of putting on the VR headset every day, I can, you know, do new things. I can put my face in my content. I can make weird videos like Mr. Beast's meat and Mr. Beast's milk and this stuff here. Uh, yeah, man. It's tough. All right, I'm going to go eat dinner now.

[00:13:43]>> Yo, guys, you will not believe what I just pulled up to Nut Funland, bro. What the heck? Yo, what is this technology?

[00:13:52]I've never seen this in my life. So, the joke is I do VR stuff for a living, guys. I'm trying to order bubble tea from this place called Hey Tea and I I can't read Chinese, so I translated this word. Guys, tell me why it says brown silver breast milk tea.

[00:14:09]What up, squad? We are back in the hotel. Just finished an amazing dinner.

[00:14:14]Got to check out some awesome things about China. It's great to be here. Uh but yeah, I guess um I'm going to be ending the vlog here now. This is what I've been up to since uh Recrim shut down. I'm not going to lie, I'm really enjoying it. And uh maybe Reck Room should have shut down earlier. I could have done this way earlier. Jokes aside though, I've already mentioned this a lot in my streams and my community post.

[00:14:33]But thank you guys so much for tuning into my chapter of my Recck Room life.

[00:14:37]And hopefully you enjoyed this vlog I have here. If I wasn't clear enough earlier when I was uh vlogging at Tenement Square, uh I want to do more IRL stuff, whether that's IRL shorts, IRL videos, or doing VR videos like integrating my IRL self, whether that's like having a facecam or just having more personal intros. Ultimately, I really want to build a better brand for myself and let you guys, you know, watch my videos because it's me that you're coming back to and not because of Recrim all the time. The Recum chapter was great. It's been 6 years, bro. 6 years, not just playing Reck, but making Recker content. Literally 6 years, I've become the biggest Recum YouTuber for multiple years even. And I want to continue growing in uh other spheres. You know, if you guys enjoy these kinds of videos, if there's other kinds of IRL videos like this you want to see, drop a comment, uh drop a hate comment, you know. Again, seriously, thank you guys so much. I'm about to head to sleep. Uh, and yeah, stay goated. And you know what they say, when Recckum shuts down, man, you just going to frown.

[00:15:36]Nobody says who?